Comments on: Christmas Memory: bb guns

By: Cindy Scroggins

Cindy Scroggins — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:15:06 +0000

Okay, I’m putting a BB gun on my wish list. Although what I really want is a shiny little silver gun that I can wear in a holster. Pow, pow.

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:16:00 +0000

Being an only child, I lacked opportunities to shoot a sibling with a BB gun. But I live with a guy who winged his brother. I think it’s what you do.

By: Phil Bebbington

Phil Bebbington — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:04:24 +0000

I was 10 I think. I was over the moon that my parents had bought me a camera for Christmas, it was a Kodak Instamatic 25. Little did I know that in the twinkle of an eye my Christmas present became the family camera! I still carry the scars. The swines!

By: Daryl Scroggins

Daryl Scroggins — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:18:57 +0000

Rick! I had the bb gun the little kid in the picture has, but always wanted the one the big kid has (the break-over barrel air rifle) that would take out squir…I mean that would really punch through those cans! I guess it’s good I didn’t have one of those since I often had bb gun wars with the neighbor kids. We would put heavy coats on and those plastic glasses we wore in shop class–and combat would commence. We always kept at it until some kid ran home screaming. I pierced a guy’s ear once and I have a scar on my cheek, but that was the extent of the injuries. Of the four or five boys who participated, one was killed in Vietnam, one went to prison, and I’m here writing about it. Don’t know what happened to the others, but Merry Christmas to them wherever they are.

By: Rick Neece

Rick Neece — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:58:16 +0000

Oh, Joseph, I know you, Statute limited or not, it must have been on accident.

By: Joseph Logan

Joseph Logan — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:29:31 +0000

I also shot my brother in the back of the head. I believe the statute of limitations has run out on that confession.